This is an attempt at a "macro" shot. I am open to any advice, as I am new to both my camera, and photography. The picture turned out like wanted it to in terms of the focus and position of the flower although it feels dull/ soft to me.

Made some minor adjustments with brightness/ contrast. Also added very minor saturation. Seems to make a world of a difference! Next time I`ll try to take the picture "right"

Made another attempt at a new flower today, this time shooting RAW... Should have framed it a little to the left :

Canon T1i - 18-55mm IS
f/5.6
1/60sec.
ISO400
55mm focal

Last edited by heli-tim on Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:25 pm, edited 5 times in total.

are you using Canon's DPP software to edit, and are you shooting in RAW?

When I was starting I shot in jpg and now when I go back to edit an old jpg I hate it. I'm not don't know how to do much in photoshop at all so everything I do is through DPP. JPG might edit well in other programs good but not DPP. So try that. It edits so much cleaner lets you try out white balances, really whatever it edits in jpg, it just seems much cleaner in RAW, and I always have to sharpen and boost color in most my images, that's just the way I like most of mine. I was a newbie 4 years ago, this site has helped a lot.